Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One) was awesome, and it set the standard for many FPS RPGs that came later. What exactly made it great? Let's dive in. Subscribe for more: / gameranxtv
You bet, i bought it for the ps3 be cause was cheap and had and coll case then when i went to my house i played 1 hour and remember being scared(i was way yonger), then 1 week after a givve another try and wow it was the best 90 i had in one game including all dlcs. Mothership zeta for me was the best
I think one of my fave moments ever as a gamer was in Fallout 3. Got pinned down by a huge group of raiders at these giant satellite dishes. Last guy is on the walkway above me, I'm totally pinned down, less then 10% health, no more health items. Only gun I have left is a missile launcher with 1 shot left. Step into his line of fire, activate VATS, 4% chance to hit the target. Fire the missile anyways. Direct headshot. The dude explodes into a million pieces and I win the fight. I still to this day remember that, it was freaking epic as hell.
my best moment in F3 was firing 4 railroad spikes at 3 Enclave soldiers coming through the doorway, then just standing there amazed at the three trophy heads pinned to the wall in front of me muhawhaha
FO3 definitely had the most "apocalyptic" feel of the series. I remember being totally freaked out traveling through the subway tunnels, and was terrified of those snarling, corpse-like ghouls leaping out of the shadows. The ghouls in FO4 look like cookie dough monsters and were a major disappointment to me. As for great moments in FO3, there were so many ... but I think the greatest was when I first emerged in central DC to see the broken Washington Monument across the plaza. The destruction of DC and its iconic landmarks really made me feel like I was exploring a post-nuclear world. Compare that to FO4, where they chose a small New England setting (lots of barren trees and small houses - yawn). The the sense of nuclear destruction was far less visceral in such a rural setting. And while FO:NV was an excellent game, the sense of devastation and isolation was far less evident; after all, how different does a post-nuclear desert look from a normal desert? FO3 is to this day my favorite game - for the amazing, green-tinged atmosphere and barren isolation. Still gives me chills!
edmund wells agreed. And I may be looking at it with the thickest rose tinted nostalgia goggles in my house, but there were just so many memories from Fallout 3. Emerging from the vault, entering Megaton for the first time, Tranquility Lane, the terrors in nearly every building/cave system. It nailed atmosphere. And I really want to see 1,2, and 3 brought to modern systems. I mean we have Diablo 3 on modern systems, and Divinity, all of which are old school RPGS that work with controllers.
ApocalypseOfSpoons I mean hell, I’d even just take a port of three for modern systems (even the Switch) but I wish Bethesda would understand that these games shouldn’t be thrown aside in favor of chasing fads
ApocalypseOfSpoons oh my god, it’s a damn mess and a half. Nobody asked for a Fallout game like that. One with local Co-op? Absolutely! But this, with one release, Bethesda has seemingly flushed all good will down the drain, and I feel like the older games are just going to get thrown by the wayside.
Some of the ghouls in FO4 have like that old skull skelly look to them, but I do see way to many mashed tater looking zombies that ignore their limbs being smashed or severed. I wanted to like 76 but its an empty heartless game and their is no drive to do anything. I would need an army of friends to make it fun and then the servers would probably crash.
The music... oh dear God the music of fallout 3... especially "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" hearing that song reminded me that no matter what happens to people or the world, humanity can continue, there will always be a nice guy, there will always be someone who tries to rebuild, And maybe someday, people with a dream will have a nice house with, "picket fence and rambling road" and that people can always be welcomed into any new group. Fallout 3 was great. Thanks.
Ive been playing fallout 3 for 4 years and completed the story mutliple times and to this day I still find new areas and spots ive never explored or scenarios ive never experienced
Fallout 4 has more quests than fo3 without even taking into account radiant ones or fo4 dlcs wich are several times better than fo3's (I did enjoy killing aliens with their own weapons, but c'mon that wasn't great content). The Preston Garvey meme has honestly been used to death, especially when you can outright ignore him in the first place.
Don't forget the music! oh man the music was so memorable. Not just the old classics but the world's atmosphere soundtrack. Wow, what a game to get immersed in. It's the reason it's my number 1 game of all time.
My first Fallout was 3, and to be honest, the sense of adventure, discovery, and the music drew me in and made me a fan. I'll admit, there's somethings that it did better than 4, and New Vegas definitely feels richer in its story, but, i still play 3 to this day and have a blast no matter what. That's my own opinion.... good day...
I agree with you but I personally love New Vegas more. Has the best story and RPG elements that I prefer. But fallout 3 does the sense of adventure, and discovery the best in the series, so I'll always love it for that
From what I've seen, the Fallout 3 haters spend hours harassing strangers on the internet for liking the game. I doubt they have a life outside of the games
Fallout 3 was my first experience with the Fallout series, and I was astounded at the game. I played it at least 15-20 times, and loved it every single time despite palying it the same way almost every time. Then New Vegas came out, and I felt very iffy about it but that's because of my prejudice towards desert maps/areas, I *loathe* desert areas/maps. But I still enjoyed it as much as I did Fallout 3. And then Fallout 4, I was enjoying it when my dad got it for me for my birthday (it released on my birthday) and I'm still playing it to this day. So I feel like I'm a fairly... neutral, or what have you, fan of the series. I don't hate on people for liking 3 or NV more than the other, nor do I hate on people who like 4. I do remain disappointed that so many people are getting as pissed off with Bethesda about Fallout 76, as the Battlefront community was with EA for Battlefront 2 and the microtransactions fiasco. I can agree with you two however, I see a LOT of people just shitting all over the people who are fans of the other games in the series because the game they aren't a fan of, is the same one the shitter is a fan of.
I've never valued the opinions of people on the internet. I think I like New Vegas and Fallout 3 equally but for different reasons. Fallout 3 has a better aesthetic and a better open world in my opinion. I actually really like the stories in both of the games
First time I beat Fallout 3, I had avoided as many super mutants as possible. Once I had my stats way up, I went around punching off super mutant heads with a Power Fist. LOVED that. Also, my dad played F3 with me once for like an hour. We took turns smashing radroaches with a baseball bat. Good times.
ヅAdmireDrippy i’m thinking about playing it again for the 20th time :) but i’ll switch it up since i was always a very good person and did everything good.
My favorite moment of Fallout 3, honestly, was when I first walked out of the dank little hole and saw for the first time with blurry eyes the Capital Wasteland. It was before I had a 360 (or a PS3) and the experience of it on my friends console was very literally awe inspiring.
I will always remember leaving Vault 101 for the first time. it gave me feelings of despair, excitement and fear in a way that no other game had before. over nine years later and I still compare my video game story experiences to that specific moment.
still has nothing to do with my comment. Go somewhere else. If you really hate Bethesda or whatever awful nickname you want to call it, harassing random people isn't the way to go.
Christmas SKELETON Fallout New Vegas is a better game than Fallout 3. But that won't change the fact that Fallout 3 was a great game. New Vegas just happened to be better.
Alpha Perseuse I feel like writing a comment explaining why Fallout 3 is bad isn't the best thing to do, but if you want to talk about it, feel free to add me on steam
Fallout 3 is my favorite fallout series. The feeling of hopelessness of the post nuclear world is what makes it a great game fallout new vegas and fallout 4 has a different vibe on it. Its like playing a good character in fallout 3 is like giving life to a desolate wasteland.
Is because of Fallout 3 I fell in love with open world/apocalyptic games. I love, love Fallout 4 too😊 Also, Fallout 3 had one of my favorite characters, Three Dog! "Helloooooo Children!" 💕
Same here.. had never been a PC game or at that time and so I had never heard of Fallout series before ... I've since become a PC Gamer and have played three and New Vegas and part 4 on my PC and it's great
4 sucked because it pushed you into some crazy shit fast unlike 3 you had options to be slightly evil and it slowly pushed you into control not just survive
I loved escaping the Raven Rock base and funding Fawkes with a Gatling laser shooting down vertibirds, one of the coolest experiences along with fighting your first behemoth
My favourite moment of fallout 3 was right after I completed all dlc, story, and all main side quests. I went back to my megaton house sat down on my chair while Galaxy news radio played “I don't want to set the world on fire" went into 3rd person mode and slowly zoomed out and pretend the screen went black. I never played again and I loved the send off
My favorite part of Fallout 3 was actually one of it's DLCS: Point Lookout is something that I remember fondly. It was spooky, but interesting. I also liked the Pitt! But from the base game? All of the metro tunnels. It was the main way to get to places, and no other game I've ever played after has utilized it with the same feel at all. You go down into this dark, scary place and have no idea where you'll pop up, desperately following the marker on the pipboy. Love it.
If you haven't played them yet, You should give the "METRO" series a try. It's the only game I've played, other than Fallout 3, that really nailed the experience of exploring old, spooky and dangerous subway tunnels.
Knightkin aren't that bad, but I remember in 3 when I ventured up by Old Olney at the top of the map and saw a deathclaw for the first time. That shit was terrifying. I killed my first deathclaw with a scoped magnum from like a mile away lol
I always loved fallout 3 the most of the series and it was the first fps game i owned and my favorite thing i ever did was lead Liberty Prime to battle, so badass
Max, you one of the only few people in the comments with a clear mind, NV was better and innovative than 3 and 4 and that is what made the game monumental. Without 3 we would have never get NV.
Max Belford, I agree, but I just love the environment of FO3. I have never really enjoyed playing in a cowboy themed nuclear wasteland like in NV, so that is the only reason I prefer 3
My favorite memory of Fallout 3 is also one of my earliest ones: I had just escaped from Vault 101 (basically I had just completed the tutorial, as it were), and was standing in the tunnel, facing the door that would lead to the outside world. I was trembling with excitement. I role-played that my character, who had just escaped the Vault, was now hesitantly opening the door, terrified of the unknown but also intrigued by the thought of a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. He (me) slowly opened the door and stepped into the blinding sunlight.
Yes, I expected wasteland, cultures of people that lived there for hundered of years... well and I got land, that looks exactly the same everywhere you look (I even missed that nuke town, because it looked exactly the same as everything else), and everything was fully populated with bunch of animals, raiders, all of them wanned to kill me on site and with almost no chance to avoid them. Then I started to notice, that it actually wasn't Fallout at all and it was completly different game and that might have been good, but I expected Fallout and therefore I was dissapointed so much, that I couldn't force myself to finish the game :-(
The memories I had with Fallout 3 are priceless. It gave me a new prespective of life and made my childhood. I'll be sure to get it again. Just wish I could have never seen the game in order to live the experience again. It changed my life, thanks! :)
Fallout 3 really deserved it's many awards and universal critical acclaim, it changed gaming in so many ways from roleplay, story to world design and so on. It was the first Fallout game I encountered and it sucked me into the wasteland. Fabulous experience
The first time I ever saw a deathclaw was in fo3 and scared the shit out of me. I was in an area where they frequently spawn and I turned to see one in mid lunge. It was weird though because it hit me once then actually Jumped, into space. it Didn't return.
Fallout 3 will always have a special place in my heart. In middle school, a friend of mine told me he got this game for Christmas and he hated it, and would therefore give it to me for FREE. That game was Fallout 3. It was the first RPG I had ever played, and between the size of the world, all the detail, the crazy weapons, the well written dialogue and interesting side quests....I was fully absorbed. Without a doubt, playing Fallout 3 was largely responsible for turning me into the gamer I am today. Thanks for the vid and allowing me to reminisce.
Thank Josh Come on, it wasn't really bad. The main questline was meh but many of the side quests were unique and super memorable (something that FO4 severely lacked). I don't think you're giving it enough credit.
Thank Josh I've also never played Morrowind so I can't really hold the two games next to each other. I know it's regarded by many as Bethesda's best work.
I remember that my cousin gifted me fallout 3 and I didn’t really take interest at it at first. It was only late last year that I played it and it still is AMAZING
Fallout New Vegas is one of the best game ever made it is probably the best open world RPG game it has everything and more. It had the most interesting weapons, places, character, deep ass lore, and great mechanics its revolutionary compared to fallout 4. By the way am I the only one that loved the ballistic fist and punching people til they exploded oh oh or or getting the perfect sneak shot with the anti material rifle In my opinion keep your pants on Also Skyrim does come close but I love the feel of Fallout more
No it is not. It has a lot of good RPG mechanics. It had a really good story, but its world was pretty bland and felt quite empty. Not to mention it is, even with the unofficial patch a CTD monster. Had the development team had another year to finish it, then I might think of it, not as the best, but as one of the best RPG's of all time. Unfortunately I just see it for what it could have been.
As a kid, I loved that the main mission was to find my dad. It was compelling but not so urgent that you felt guilty for wandering off, unlike the search for your child in Fallout 4. I loved that we started out as a vault dweller. Everything was as new to my character as it was to me. I could be myself. My favorite moment was seeing a raider in the distance just after stepping out into the wastes for the first time. "A person! Out here?! Maybe he's friendly!" *Gunfire*. I never felt so insulted ;P
I actually didn't know of Fallout franchise until Fallout 3. Then I spent a large portion of my life in that world and New Vegas. I feel like I actually lived in the nuclear wasteland, in my memories, now, because of my past obsession with the worlds. Fallout 3's DLCs were definitely the cherry on top that I never knew I needed until they existed. Mainly Anchorage(The nice infinite ammo/armor glitch) and Mothership Zeta.
My favorite fallout memories, heck my favorite gaming memories are from my first play through of this when I was 10. That first moment when you leave the vault to the first time I went in the metro tunnels and saw a feral ghoul, that really scared me as a kid it took me like a month to build the courage to go down there
"Communists detected on American soil. Lethal force engaged" hands down my favorite moment was Liberty Prime, the crazy fight mixed with Anti-Commie messages is a true highlight of not just Fallout history, but gaming history.
Atmosphere and music in fallout 3 easy beats new vegas and F4 Well, at least for my taste, but new vegas overall always will be superior in other parts
My favorite part of 3 was traveling out of the vault and turning on the radio for the first time. I had never played a fallout game before 3 and was pleasantly surprised to hear people commentating over the radio. This made me want to play the game. I love fallout new vegas' aesthetic and feel but I just couldn't get into it. I felt like I didn't have a reason to leave goodsprings. I also didn't like the town of goodsprings because every single house felt the same and it didn't make me want to explore. I believe fallout 3 has a much better storyline
Dvrk night dummo. They took out alot of good things that made the previous games good and added the settlement system and messed up alot of lore. That’s why alot of previous fallout fans aren’t happy about it
Yeah it’s a shame. Fallout 4 is still a pretty fun game, but you get burnt out on it way too quick and it lacks a lot of the character the previous games had.
Fandom Tribal pretty much everything said there was true besides the dice roll speech. Personally I liked having a chance to fail, it also means no matter how low level you are that there's a CHANCE you can do it. Fnv you had to have this skill level, end of story
Damien13 Fout Well not really debating. All Fallout fans know New Vegas is way, way better. While all these new Bethesda Fallout fans think 3 is better (somehow)
they are debating, just like you are now, I personally think fallout 3 is way better and I played fallout 1 and 2 first, in fact it seems fallout new vegas fans are the worst, they come and pry on fallout 3 videos and bring up how they think new vegas is better when thats not even what the video is about, like they want people to know they like new vegas when no one gives a shit. fallout 3 should be praised as not only a great game but the game that made the building blocks for nv, people fallout nv tards have to ruin all of the celebration
Vis_Leos I do wonder how did you even play through Fallout 1and 2 if you think 3 is better. 3 fails pretty much at everything that makes a Fallout game.
My favorite thing I did in Fallout 3 was reverse pick-pocketing raider painspike armor onto Moira Brown. I saw no results at first, then left Megaton and completed one of the DLCs. When I came back, I'd completely forgotten I'd given it to her at all, because she was wearing it! Now as for my favorite things I did in Fallout 2: I assassinated Mr. Wright by giving his kid a gun, I dug up a poor drunk ghoul in the Golgotha graveyard, I became a porn star, had a shotgun wedding in Modoc, got my car stolen, got the car back (by sleeping with the chop shop dude), got sick from eating Brahmin testicles, left a poor dude stranded in a well, became a boxer, murdered the shit out of the Mordinos, the Salvatores, and the Bishops, slept with Mrs. Bishop and got her pregnant, prank-called the Enclave, encountered the bridgekeeper from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, freed the slaves in the Den, grew a sixth toe, surgically removed it, became captain of the guard in Vault City by sucking up to Lynette, assassinated Big Jesus Mordino by giving him Nuka Cola, got a divorce in New Reno, got all of my friends laid, helped make peace between Vault City and Gecko, Smoothed out relations between NCR and Vault 15, helped a restless spirit move on, healed a brahmin with a wounded leg, sold that brahmin to a butcher and then stole her back again, donated sperm to Vault City, got raped by a super mutant when I lost an arm wrestling duel with him, befriended talking deathclaws, played chess with an intelligent scorpion, put my friend's brains into a robot, and drove across the wasteland in the only functional car available, with five other people in tow.
I think a lot of the weirdness like Little Lamplight was Bethesda trying to capture the wackiness of Fallout 2, but Bethesda really falls short in the writing and dialogue areas.
My favorite Fallout 3 memory was learning about fast travel... after 40+hours of gameplay. I will say I discovered a lot of locations traveling on foot everywhere.
Fallout 3, NV, and 4 are all great games. New Vegas was obviously better, and had more features, but 3 was the introduction to majority of the fan base everything we ended up loving about the series. Fallout 4 really was a good game, but they just weren’t able to capture what people liked about the past two entries.
Fallout 3 and New Vegas are A LOT better than Fallout 4, the downsides are that they're old, buggy and the poor performance. With some mods it's so freakin' good though.
I enjoyed both 3 and New Vegas, but I preferred 3. In my opinion, it's down to personal preference: The adventure theme that 3 offers Vs the gritty realism of New Vegas. New Vegas did offer some gameplay improvements, but what can I say, I'm a bit of a graphics whore.
When I had just started highschool, I bought an Xbox 360 and I got a second hand copy of Fallout 3 for it. The first time coming out of vault 101 was indescribable. At this moment, I have about 4500 hours logged on the Xbox version alone 😆
What the hell do you mean by calling Fallout 1 and 2 "Borderline Satire"? They were good games and had a more immersive world in terms of characters than Fallout 3.
Austrian Leninist, Because there were a lot of satire and 4th wall breaking moments. There are parts where you can literally reference that you're playing a video game.
The intro to Fallout 3 is one of the coolest memories I have in gaming. After escaping Vault 101 I scrolled through my Pip Boy and saw the radio signals. I remember clicking on the Enclave radio signal to hear the start of “America the Beautiful” play as I took in the sight of the game world before me.
From bestheda´s fallouts: - Fallout 3: best immersion and exploration. - Fallout NV: best plot and characters. - Fallout 4: best FPS mechanics - Fallout 76: best online glitches to laugh about with your friends (if the server doesnt crash) They all have terrible FPS mechanics and bugs/glitches....
I'll never forget the first night I spent playing this game all night with the lights off getting lost in the subway system. A ghoul ran up on me and didn't make noise till it was in my face and I literally jumped off the couch. It was a great memory of one of my favorite games of all time, let alone the first game I ever got for my Xbox 360.
theres a place downtown that u have to take subway stations or go through buildings to get to and its a park FULL of super mutants the whole area i found it when i was around 9 or 10 and i remember trying to find it when i replayed it a few years later. 22 now and this series is still my favorite games of all time
A brilliant game with atmosphere , great and funny dialogue options and Freedom. Now Fallout is watered down and seems to be more about Minecraft than anything else and gone so goofy too. Have you guys seen Waynes world when Waynes world got brought out by that company ? how the intro to Waynes world changed and made cheesy ? that feels like whats happened to Modern Fallout sadly.
I'll never forget the time I went to the super duper mart and I used Vats with the 44 mag close range on a raider. I clicked one time for a head shot. The camera moved to a side view kinda far out showing just the two of us like in a stand off. He aimed for the head and then there was a slight moment of silence. The rider was about to take another shot but the trigger was pulled and his head fucking exploded onto the wall and he just fell to the ground. After the camera went back to first person view. I just stood there in awe. This was early on in my first play through of the game. It was the most epic and brutal thing I experienced in a video game.
For anyone whose been to Wasteland Weekend, the first biggest influence is Mad Max, the second- Fallout. It has had a huge influence on the Post-Apocalypse fandom/subculture. From the lexicon to the use of bottlecaps. Tribes and organizations all have bottlecaps printed with their logos that are collected and traded like business cards and the casinos use them as poker chips.
Its is 100% objectively better than fallout 4 1. Less storage required 2. No crappy story because there is no story 3. 0 bugs 4. Graphics dont look outdated
that is pretty inaccurate. i don't think it was as good, the dialogue options were poor and all said the same thing, and the story was boring as hell, but the combat was better, the weapon modification system was awesome, and V.A.T.S. was much better and fit more in the combat. also seeing the prydwen fly in to the commonwealth was almost as great as seeing liberty prime getting hit by an orbital strike in broken steel. the wasteland was also much better in terms of the unique locations. i just wish that 4 acknowledged new vegas a little more.
I loved getting my hands on the Tribal Power armor in The Pit, pair that with an outcast helmet and you get one hell of a good looking suit. Not to mention that the Metal Blaster is a pretty sick laser Shotgun, gimme that over the standard tribeam that mutant overlords carry anytime I play. Guess my favorite parts of Fallout 3 were the dark gritty setting, and the sense of humor to match it, but especially the power armor and the Guns.... lots of guns.
I remember going to a shop and seeing something I really wanted, but couldn't afford, because the first time you play you feel like you're always broke and can't get caps. so I decided to try to steal it even though I hadn't stolen anything so far. But then I had to come up with a way to do it without getting caught because the shopkeeper was always within sight of it. finally I realized I could stack crates in front of me and block her sight, and get away with stealing it. it was so satisfying even though I found a better version of the item just an hour or two later.
I’m currently playing for the first time and it’s literally /all/ I care to do right now. I’m not the most epic gamer so I was extremely frustrated at the start of the game, but once I put it on the easiest mode and finally got enough ammo and medicine to not halfass die from mole rats, I started having an absolute blast. So grateful that this game exists
I liked new Vegas better but it’s hard to compare the two games because other then the engine and the same story of before they’re completely different games
The only good DLC for FO3 was Point Lookout. The others were rushed and barely had any content. FO3 was a rail shooter with a good soundtrack; New Vegas was an actual RPG. They're both good games, but NV is a better RPG, a better Fallout and a better world.
Semyon Galtsev New Vegas was definitely a better RPG in terms of choice but the way in which those choices were made were pretty straight forward, it was mostly simple busy work rather than rich story telling.
My favorite quest is to find the last violin for an old lady named Agatha, and the reward is after the quest ended properly, I can hear her plays the violin on her radio broadcast
Fallout 3 was one of the first games I played that really allows me to see video games as an art form. Until then I had only played platformers like Super Mario or Donkey Kong which are fun but aren't exactly story driven or visually arresting. Fallout 3 opened my eyes to what video games could be.
